Kolokotronis Park
Shady square crowned by a galloping bronze equestrian statue of a War of Independence general.
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This guide to Kolokotronis Park in Nafplio goes back to eighteen thirty-four, when the town was the capital of a young Greece governed by Bavarian regents, and the general who had led its War of Independence stood trial for treason. It follows two judges, Anastasios Polyzoidis and Georgios Tertsetis, and the justice minister who came to the courtroom himself. Listen standing beneath the bronze horseman, facing the way his hand points.
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